164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
NoTODONTA TREPIDA IN ConNwALL.— When down in Cornwall 
last September, I caught on an oak-tree the larva of Notodonta 
trepida. It was crawling down the tree, apparently about to bury 
itself. The moth emerged about the 10th of this month. The 
place we found it was about five miles from Liskeard. This is a 
new locality for this species, as far as I can find out.— WILLIAM 
H. Kynaston; Montpellier Lodge, Cheltenham, May 26, 
1880. 
Noroponta CHaonta.—I have the pleasure of recording the 
appearance of the above species here this season, having bred the 
imago from a pupa found last autumn at the foot of an oak.— 
ALFRED Woop, Westmeston Place, Westmeston, Sussex. 
ARGYRESTHIA HRARIELLA BRED. — From larve collected last 
August, at the Bushes, near Manchester, feeding in the berries 
of mountain-ash, I have just bred a series of Argyresthia erariella. 
Plenty of A. conjugella are emerging, but no intermediate forms 
have yet appeared. A#rariella is certainly a species. ‘The males 
and females copulate freely, but never yet have been observed to 
do so with A. conjugella. I am sorry to say that this insect is 
not likely to be abundant.—J. H. Turetrati; Preston, June 2, 
1880. 
NEMOPHORA PILELLA.—I have turned up Nemophora pilella 
this season; I never possessed the species before. I took a fine 
series in a fir wood, among Vacciniwm, on the moors above 
Stoneyhurst College. Some specimens I have seen doing duty 
in collections for Pilella are Nemophora Schwarziella. This species 
is totally distinct when fine specimens are seen, the hind wings 
being much darker than in Schwarziella, and the fore wings more 
reticulated, like N. metazella, and more rounded. Let anyone 
who has taken the lazy Schwarziella take Pilella; he will soon 
find out how much more wind it takes to blow Pilella down into 
the net to box. I expect it is nearly always blowing on the high 
moors, so the insect has learned to be more vigorous and active, 
to maintain its position in nature; it also runs about in the box, 
like Tinea pellionella. 'Vhere can be no doubt the larva will be a 
Vaccinium feeder. Mr. Stainton says Zeller used to take it at 
Glogan, in fir woods, among bilberry. Mr. Stainton also says he 
has seen but very few British specimens.—J. B. Hopexrnson; 
Preston, June, 1880, 
